Thach, who would later develop the Thach Weave aerial combat tactic, emphasized gunnery in his training.

An example of the Thach Weave: An enemy following planes A or B is vulnerable to attack from C and D.

Working at night with matchsticks on the table, he eventually came up with what he called " Beam Defense Position ", but which soon became known as the " Thach Weave ".

A correctly-executed Thach Weave ( assuming the bait was taken and followed ) left little chance of escape to even the most maneuverable opponent.

The basic Thach Weave, executed by two wingmen.

Marines flying Wildcats from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal also adopted the Thach Weave.

Saburō Sakai, the famous Japanese ace, relates their reaction to the Thach Weave when they encountered Guadalcanal Wildcats using it:

It has an extended discussion of fighter tactics of the time, including an in-depth discussion of the development of the Thach Weave.

It contains an account by John Thach about the development of the Weave and another about its use in Midway.

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U. S. Marines flying F4F Wildcats from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal were using a new aerial combat tactic, the " Thach Weave ", developed in 1941 by the U. S. Navy aviators John Thach and Edward O ' Hare.

Saburō Sakai described their reaction to the Thach Weave when they encountered Guadalcanal Wildcats using it:

Whereas the Thach Weave is used as aircraft move towards a point in space, the Lufbery is employed over a fixed point.

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Indian Air Force's Sukhoi Su-30MKI s during a Thach Weave maneuver.

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His son-in-law, Phan Thien Thach, works also on Optimization.

Once being exploited, Thach Khe ore and iron mine is expected to be the motivation for Hà Tĩnh's development.

Thach ( F-1 ) and Lt. O ' Hare ( F-13 ) during the aerial photography flight of April 11, 1942.

The tactic was first tested in combat by Thach during the Battle of Midway, when his flight of four Wildcats was attacked by a squadron of Zeroes.

By mid-1942, the Allies began to regroup and while some Allied aircraft such as the Brewster Buffalo and the P-39 were hopelessly outclassed by fighters like Japan's Zero, others such as the Army's P-40 and the Navy's Wildcat possessed attributes such as superior firepower, ruggedness and dive speed, and the Allies soon developed tactics ( such as the Thach weave ) to take advantage of these strengths.

Thach's wingman, Ensign R. A. M. Dibb, was attacked by a Japanese pilot and turned towards Thach, who dived under his wingman and fired at the incoming enemy aircraft's belly until its engine ignited.

Truong's forces then advanced to the southern bank of the Thach Han River, where they halted, exhausted and depleted by heavy casualties and unable to push on to Dong Ha.

They retained the insignia through the 1930s when they became a fighter squadron under the designations VF-6B and, later, VF-3, whose members Edward O ' Hare and John Thach became famous naval aviators in World War II.

Lieutenant John Thach, then executive officer of VF-3, discovered O ' Hare's exceptional flying abilities and closely mentored the promising young pilot.

These two planes, under command of Lieutenant Commander John Thach shot down a four-engined Kawanishi H6K4 Type 97 (" Mavis ") flying boat about 43 miles out at 1112.

LT Edward O ' Hare at press conference with LCDR John Thach and reporters at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on March 26, 1942.

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However, several spellings of his surname exist — Thatch, Thach, Thache, Thack, Tack, Thatche and Theach.

While serving as Ambassador to Thailand, Martin's foster son, Marine 1LT Glenn Dill Mann, was killed near Chu Lai, South Vietnam, in November 1965 while attacking enemy positions at Thach Tru with his UH-1 helicopter gunship.

Publicity footage of O ' Hare and Thach at Kaneohe Naval Air Station, April 10, 1942.

Lieutenant Commander Thach arrived at the scene with other pilots of the flight, later reporting that at one point he saw three of the enemy bombers falling in flames at the same time.

According to Thach, Butch then approached the gun platform to calmly say to the embarrassed anti-aircraft gunner who had fired at him, " Son, if you don't stop shooting at me when I've got my wheels down, I'm going to have to report you to the gunnery officer.

Thach calculated that O ' Hare had used only sixty rounds of ammunition for each bomber he destroyed ; an impressive feat of marksmanship.

On June 19, 1942 O ' Hare assumed command of VF-3, relieving Lieutenant Commander Thach.

Thach had heard, from a report published in the 22 September 1941 Fleet Air Tactical Unit Intelligence Bulletin, of the Japanese Mitsubishi Zero's extraordinary maneuverability and climb rate.

Thach called on Ensign Edward " Butch " O ' Hare, who led the second section in Thach's division, to test the idea.